instagram

Here’s a better way: http://api.instagram.com/oembed?url=http://instagram.com/p/Y7GF-5vftL/ Render as json object and you can easily extract media id from it — For instance, in PHP $api = file_get_contents(“http://api.instagram.com/oembed?url=http://instagram.com/p/Y7‌​GF-5vftL/”); $apiObj = json_decode($api,true); $media_id = $apiObj[‘media_id’]; For instance, in JS $.ajax({ type: ‘GET’, url: ‘http://api.instagram.com/oembed?callback=&url=http://instagram.com/p/Y7GF-5vftL‌​/’, cache: false, dataType: ‘jsonp’, success: function(data) { try{ var media_id = data[0].media_id; }catch(err){} } … Read more

Yes, from what I think are updated Facebook docs. Rate Limiting The Instagram API uses the same rate limiting as the Graph API (200 calls per user per hour) with one exception: the /media/comments edge limits writes to 60 writes per user per hour. Please refer to the Graph API’s rate limiting documentation for more … Read more

Shiva’s answer doesn’t apply anymore. The API call “/users/{user-id}/follows” is not supported by Instagram for some time (it was disabled in 2016). For a while you were able to get only your own followers/followings with “/users/self/follows” endpoint, but Instagram disabled that feature in April 2018 (with the Cambridge Analytica issue). You can read about it … Read more